Media quotes

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◆ Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

- Criss Jami100

◆ The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

- Malcolm X100

◆ All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

- Marshall McLuhan99

◆ The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

- Peter McWilliams99

◆ The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

- Peter McWilliams99

◆ The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

- Corazon Aquino99

◆ Media: 99,99% of what happens is not on the news

- Loesje99

◆ Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

- Robert Bresson99

◆ Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

- Marshall McLuhan99

◆ Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

- Graham Greene99

◆ The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

- Thomas Griffith99

◆ The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the publics general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy and powerful multinational corporations, members of Congress, the current Presidential Administration including the administrations that preceded it. The news media is being utilized as a political tool of suppression and propaganda by those in power, and propaganda is psychological in nature. Full of half-truths and utter misinformation, its an arrogant and very commercial strategy that is implemented because it appeals to emotions, fear being the main one relentless talk of national security, personal and community safety, can trigger childhood insecurities and indoctrinated views of authority.

- Teresa Stover99

◆ Now, they have invented a new war to fire our passion and capture imaginationThe War on Christmas. Its a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane.

- Jules Carlysle99

◆ Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

- Jim Morrison99

◆ A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.

- Joseph Stalin99